October 2013

Former stars converge on Garfield

CHICAGO – The National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA), the only Association comprised of NBA, ABA, Harlem Globetrotters and WNBA alumni, will host a youth basketball and life skills clinic in Seattle on October 26 at Garfield High School in conjunction with the National Police Athletic League (PAL) and National Urban League.

Former Seattle SuperSonics great Shawn Kemp (6-time NBA All-Star) headlines a list of NBRPA Legends serving as coaches. Additional coaches include former NBA players Slick Watts (Seattle SuperSonics/NBA All-Defensive First Team), Vester Marshall (Seattle SuperSonics) and Eldridge Recasner (University of Washington/9-year NBA career) and former Harlem Globetrotters player Joyce Walker (one of the first women to join the Globetrotters). These Legends of Basketball will conduct the basketball portion of the event, which will impact more than 150 local at-risk youth in Seattle as part of a 14-city touring youth basketball and mentoring program titled Full Court Press: Prep for Success.

Friday, Oct. 18

Football

Kennedy 20, Renton 10
Colin Cossette scored all three touchdowns and made two of three extra point kicks to lead the Kennedy Catholic Lancers to a 20-10 victory at Renton last Friday.
He caught a 40-yard pass from Damien Maricich for the first touchdown, then struck on a 29-yard run and a 5-yard run.
Kennedy hosts Highline for a 5 p.m. game at Highline Memorial this coming Friday.

Lindbergh 40, Highline 6
Highline went down to a 40-6 defeat at the hands of Lindbergh for homecoming this past Friday.
TJ 41, Mt. Rainier 0
Mount Rainier went on the road to Federal Way Memorial Friday and took a 41-0 loss at the hands of Thomas Jefferson.
The Rams host Kent-Meridian at 8 p.m. this coming Friday at Highline Memorial.

These photos document the latest graffiti and vandalism committed in Burien’s parks … this time at the Annex, Dottie Harper Park (including its historic sculpture by artist Richard Beyer, as well as trees), Town Square Park, and Linde Hill Park over the weekend of October 19-20, 2013. Burien Parks is asking for tips and offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible. Anyone with information that can help identify the individuals responsible is asked to call King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-296-3311 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be submitted online at www.CrimeStoppers.com. If anyone should see suspicious activity in a park after hours, call 911 immediately.

To view all the photos of the damage visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/burienparks/sets/72157636813621566

SEATTLE — Highline Medical Center was recognized for outstanding efforts to reduce patient harm and improve patient safety during the 81st annual meeting of the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) in Seattle. 
 Highline Medical Center is one of 16 WSHA hospitals to earn the 2013 “Washington State Hospital Association Safe Care in Action” award through participation in the Partnership for Patients national initiative – a nationwide collaborative effort to reduce the number of hospital-acquired conditions and hospital readmissions by the end of 2013. 
 “It is an honor for our staff to be recognized for their commitment to providing our patients with a safe environment for their health care,” said Highline Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Mark Benedum.

The initiative focuses on reducing harm in 10 key areas:

• Adverse drug events

• Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

• Central line-associated blood stream infections

• Injuries from falls and immobility

• Obstetrical adverse events

• Pressure ulcers

• Surgical site infections

• Venous thromboembolism

Information from Seattle Police Department, updated on Oct. 23 to include more detail on both incidents

Officers are on the lookout for suspects after two lewd incidents in West Seattle on Tuesday afternoon.

On October 22nd at approximately 2:05 p.m. officers responded to Westside School in the 7700 block of 34th Avenue SW for the report of lewd conduct. The incident occurred around 1:15 p.m. when several students were on their recess and reported the suspect’s actions to the assistant principal, who subsequently called 911.

In this incident a group of female students were playing together when they observed the suspect sitting in a black 4-door sedan parked alongside the playground area on 32nd Avenue SW. (the playground is elevated above the street and overlooks 32nd Avenue SW). The girls could see the suspect masturbating inside his car. One of the girls screamed which prompted several male students to come over to their location. The suspect drove off southbound on 32nd Avenue SW.

The suspect was described as a white male in his 30′s with a partial beard and wearing a hoodie.

A car wreck involving two vehicles at the intersection of 35th Ave. S.W. and S.W. Henderson at 7:09 p.m. this evening (Oct. 22) resulted in multiple injuries that sent at least two people to the hospital.

Fire trucks and paramedics are on scene as of 7:33 p.m. and traffic is blocked in both directions at this time.

Update

The Rainier 'R' sidled up next to King's Hardware and became the target of many an iPhone.

You can see our own photo above.

Did you get a picture with the R?

Original

Ballard will be a part of history tonight as the rebuilt classic Rainier "R" will wind its way through the neighborhood around 6 p.m.

The R will be spotted throughout several neighborhoods today, ginning up excitement for its restoration to its proper place at the old Rainier Brewery. After sitting proudly on the Seattle skyline over I-5 for about 50 years, the original R had been taken down in 2000 and replaced by a green 'T' -- as in Tully's, to mark its roaster in the spot.

Now, with Patrick 'McDreamy' Dempsey taking his leave from Tully's, the new owners have decided to do the right thing by the Emerald City and are erecting the iconic red neon 'R' once more. While the old one is sitting in MOHAI, the new one takes on many of the same attributes -- the same swooshy-looking design -- just with more lights.

Updated story for Oct. 22, 12:45 p.m.

A high-risk violent sex offender who fled Canada and was located in Seattle by authorities on Oct. 17 was arrested in West Seattle in the early morning hours of Oct. 22 for investigation of sexual assault of a teen victim and harassment.

Michael Sean Stanley, 48, has made the international news rounds in the past week after he was allowed entry into the United States.

After registering as a homeless sex offender with the King County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 19 nothing had been heard until Stanley reemerged in West Seattle. According to police, several people called 911 shortly before 6 a.m. on Oct. 22 to report a man was yelling in an alleyway near the 2400 block of 44th Ave. S.W. (behind the Admiral Theater).

One witness told police he asked the screaming man to quiet down and Stanley allegedly threatened to assault him. Police say Stanley was combative with officers when they arrived and claimed to be armed with a knife. During his arrest a small knife was recovered and officers noted he “appeared intoxicated.”

By Carole Smith

When summer came and we were done
With text books, shoes and math called “fun”
Our little pencil-weary hands
Just ached to touch its soothing sands

Or stare into its tidal pools
And wait for all those slithering schools
Of slippery fins and bulging eyes
So we could shriek, in feigned surprise

We might dam up the mountain stream
That spread its waters fresh and clean
Across the delta, till its cup
Had by the tide been filled back up

It was our most adored retreat
Where at its stoves with friends we’d meet
Watch Easter’s sky to morning turn
And even trees from Christmas burn

No single place gave me more strength
Or taught me balance to the length
As did the lessons life would teach
Upon the logs of Alki Beach!

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

It is called modern technology but if you came into my office you would view a jumble of wires of all sizes and colors. Several blinking lights can be observed and if they are all lit then I know everything is working. And my techie daughter set me up with a laptop so I could move it to the kitchen when I was cooking. Yes, I would rather write than cook so my several trips to my office during a cooking episode often resulted in many a burned cooking pot.

Several years ago my husband and I marketed a special brand of cookware. You know the system. You buy a set and then you get a special rate if you sell this cookware to all your friends and relatives. Now you and all your friends have a set of four pots, two frying pans, a double boiler and a strainer, —all of wonderful stainless steel. And I must say that the ware would have held up without having been burned black so many times if I had been a reliable cook, tending to the meal rather than escaping into my office before the meal had been removed from the stove.